“I’m not resigning,” she said. “I’m retiring after 45 years in education.”

This is actually Nash’s second contract as the Hanover School Superintendent. Her first contract was for three years and ended in 2009. After 2009, the school committee recommitted to Nash with a five-year contract.

“They offered me a five-year contract, I told them I only needed three,” she said. “I said I would stay for however long it takes to open the high school.”

Although Nash put in her letter of retirement, it doesn’t mean she is ceasing her duties immediately. She plans on handing over the reigns on Nov. 2.

“I don’t expect that in a month the school committee will be able to put someone in,” she said. “I wanted to give them that continuity.”

Nash also said that she would like to get a new contract for the staff before she leaves as they have been operating without one.

“I completed six years as Hanover’s superintendent,” she said. “The average expectancy for a superintendent is three to five years.”

Nash said that she looks forward to the more simple things in life. She described wanting to travel more, and even do things she hasn’t been able to like making supper for her husband or get home at a reasonable hour.

“It’s a good time for me and for the school committee,”
she said. “I recently had major hip replacement surgery, it makes you look at life a little differently.”

School Committee Chairwoman Libby Corbo said that Nash has been very valuable to the school system over the years.

“She’s been in education for 45 years,” said Chairwoman of the Hanover School Committee Libby Corbo. “She’s had quite a distinguished career.”

Nash was hired in June 2006 to replace Mary Ann Jackman. Before coming to Hanover, Nash was assistant supt. of schools in the Dover-Sherborn district and worked in the East Bridgewater and Marshfield school districts previously.

Check back for more information on this developing story and read next week’s Hanover Mariner, on newsstands Wednesday, Aug. 8.